This paper investigates the impact of regulation and ownership on the performance of banks in 19 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We test the hypothesis that the effect of regulation on bank profitability depends on the type of ownership structure. The public and...

This paper examines the main determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 26 European countries over the period 1996-2010. The previous research reports two groups of explanatory factors: gravity factors (proximity, market size) and factor endowments (infrastructure, human capital). Other...

This paper investigates the impacts of corruption, economic freedom, interest rate, capital regulation and transparency on bank risk-taking in both theoretical and empirical analysis. The data were collected from 6 chosen ASEAN countries from 2011–2020. The generalized method of moments (GMM)...